Vive Le Newton!

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Vive Le Newton!

It's been more than six years since Apple discontinued the Newton, but this week the Worldwide Newton Association was launched "to promote the Newton computing platform."

Based in France, the association will hold its first conference in Paris on Sept. 5 (just after AppleExpo, France's equivalent of MacWorld).

The press release says, "With several thousands of units currently running worldwide, and a core group of passionate developers, this personal digital assistant has been able to adapt to the latest evolutions in technology found in the computing world: Internet, WiFi, Bluetooth, modern storage media, and so on. Integration of these new technologies is a sign that the Newton remains the king of the PDAs, even though the production and marketing of this miniaturized computer ended over six years ago."